Exploring Photography Level 2

            The Intimate Portraiture project Task 1 (AC 1.1 and 1.2) Research the works of 3 photographers in preparation of the work on the project Jo Spence I first came across Jo Spence in my photography therapy Changing Perspectives with Jon Rees https://www.iamjonrees.com/ . Jo Spence was a charismatic personality and an early pioneer of photography therapy. She has captured her fight with breast cancer. She was a middle-aged woman and no beauty but her pictures were very powerful. Jo Spence was a feminist artist and activist who explored themes of gender, class, and self-identity. After Spence was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1982, she made several series of self-portraits documenting her battle with the disease until her death from leukaemia a decade later. The photographs expressed her physical and emotional state. Her doctor and collaborator Tim Sheard explained, ‘Spence is representing the honest emotions felt living in an unruly body that cannot conform to the pressures

  Jo Spence Jo Spence was a charismatic personality and early pioneer of photography therapy. She has captured her fight with a breast cancer. She was a middle aged woman and no beauty but her pictures were very powerful. https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-4s93Oj9mM&feature=share Mary Ellen Mark Other one: Mary Ellen Mark with her documentary portraits of ‘unfamous’ people … https://youtu.be/bgo5cL0jYcI What was different about Mary - she would visit families through their lives. She even wanted to adopt a child prostitute who was her project subject.